What makes a good performance? We have been studying how poetry is written for performance and the techniques writers use like rhythm, repetition, personification, metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, facial and body expressions. We read and looked at poems by Michael Rosen, Roger McGough and Roald Dahl. Our challenge was to use a traditional nursery rhyme and …
Over the past couple of weeks, all children, from EYFS to Year 6, have been working hard on their Little Inventors Christmas Competition task. Children were given the following brief and had to come up with their own original, weird and wonderful ideas! ‘Tis the season to hang the stockings, roll up the snowmen, and …
For our topic exit point we enjoyed visiting Jorvik to discover the sights, sounds and smells of the Viking Age. We also visited The DIG which gave the children a hands-on experience of being an archaeologist by digging for evidence in the digging pits and putting their enquiry skills to the test. There were many …
Today marks the start of Anti-Bullying week for 2022. To show our support, we have all come to school dressed in odd/crazy socks! In classes, we have discussed that this represents how is it cool for us all to be different, and how we should never be unkind towards others because of their differences. Throughout …
In our meetings so far this half-term, School Council have discussed how they’d like a space pupils can go to, to just ‘chill out’ sometimes. As a group we came up with the idea of running a lunchtime club called ‘Chill out Tuesdays’. Here pupils can read, draw, craft, play chess, chat to their friends …
This week school council have been decorating their suggestion boxes! These will be placed in their classes after half-term, ready to be filled with pupil suggestions. Thanks to our year 6 helpers who also helped us decorate these at lunch.
Understanding how the Media can be misleading and looking at how Social Media does not always reflect reality. We played a Social Media play dough game. One person made a model out of play dough and covered it with a cloth so that the rest of the class couldn’t see. The class formed a line …
Today our newly appointed school councillors received their badges in assembly! They were all very excited and proud to show themselves off to the whole school. They also took part in their first school council meeting at lunch time, and have been tasked with their first job of finding a box suitable to turn into …
For our PE warm up we had the challenge of representing Roman Numerals using our bodies. We were surprised how many different positions we could think of to represent each Roman Numerals. We worked individually and with small groups. Can you guess which numbers we were representing?
In RE we have been learning about Sikhism. As part of our lesson we looked at the importance of mindfulness and meditation during prayer. We had a go at a ‘stilling’ exercise. We closed our eyes and listened to relaxing music, whilst trying to clear our minds. We were amazed by how relaxed and peaceful …